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Re: Proactive steps to prevent DDOS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Mon Jan 29 12:43:14 2001

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:40:36 -0800
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Sean Capshaw <scapshaw@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:34:10AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:16:27 PST, Sean Capshaw <scapshaw@yahoo.com>  said:
> > of the bulk of that ICMP traffic, then change your
> > filters to discard ICMP to the host under attack while
> > in parallel notify the NOC of the source or
> > intermediary involved
> 
> *attempt* to notify the NOC....

Oh, I never had problems notifying NOCs...

getting them to *do* something or call someone is the trick.

I can't remember which large ISP it was that told me that the 
only way I'd be connected to their network was if I was a customer
with a customer number.  "i don't think so"



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